Starfinder Rules Reference Cards Deck

Put the Starfinder Roleplaying Game rules at your fingertips! Whether you're a Game Master who needs a convenient reference for starship combat, a player who wants summaries of how to use your favorite skills, or a newcomer trying to learn the rules, this 110-card deck features concise guides to essential concepts from the Starfinder Core Rulebook on handy double-sided cards. Stop flipping back and forth through rulebooks—grab the cards you need and keep your game moving!

I think it could be good depending on how it's done. I'd like to be able to hand someone a card that summarizes what they can do if they're the Captain in starship combat, or a card that has the effects of the Constitution progression track on it if they're poisoned. Etc.

This product makes no sense to me personally, as flipping through 110 cards is way more complicated than flipping through the CRB.

I'd rather take a page of notes than a textbook into an exam. In other words, it's sometimes useful to get a summary to remind you of stuff you know but have forgotten rather than look up a repository of the full rules.

This also allows customisation - if I'm a computer hacker and act as the ship science office I can pull out the "computer hacking" card and the "science officer actions" card and construct a mini-deck specific to my character.

I personally find things like this most useful as a GM who knows something is going to come up because it's in the adventure, or as a player who knows I have selected specific options that interact with a less-common subset of the rules.
As a GM, I find things like cards with rules for underwater combat, or 0-G combat, useful to pull about before a game where I know such things will come up. Especially if I am comfortable with the rules, but know some players aren't, it's great to be able to hand out a card with a summary.

I love the idea of this. I second Owen K. C. Stephens' insight that this would be a userful tool for GM's to prepare specific rule set card in advance of specific encounters, as well as Jhaeman's great idea to use as a tool to hand out to players taking on unfamiliar roles and who need to get up to speed quickly during play.

I have a question with regards to the usability of these cards as a set. How will each subsection of rules descirbed on the cards be classified and categorized? Will there be different color coding for cards dealing with a specific subset of rules, or special icons on each card for easy classification and identification? Will the cards with rules and roles for spaceship combat be distinguished somehow from the cards dealing with class specific traits, or from spell cards?

As Marco Massoudi points out, it can potentially get time consuming flipping through cards. If there is a good classification of the cards and the type of rule they reference, this can facilitate their ease of use. Even if the cards are numbered, many times a deck in my posession will quickly get mixed out of order as I customize their order to suit a specific character or situation.

I am sure that Paizo already had a meeting or two about this and I would love to hear a little more on how this set will be organized and how each card subject will be distinguished from others and classified.

I have a question with regards to the usability of these cards as a set. How will each subsection of rules descirbed on the cards be classified and categorized? Will there be different color coding for cards dealing with a specific subset of rules, or special icons on each card for easy classification and identification? Will the cards with rules and roles for spaceship combat be distinguished somehow from the cards dealing with class specific traits, or from spell cards?

Each card has an icon (or icons) that delineates what "rules category" it falls under, then a heading with the specific rule topic on the card. So all of the cards about skills have the "Skill" icon, for example, and the Athletics card is clearly distinguished from the Stealth card from those words (Athletics and Stealth) at the top of those cards.

They are very similar in format to the Rules Reference Cards for Pathfinder 1st edition, for those who are familiar with those cards.